African Species of Erotylidae. 145 



scutello lato ; elytris subtiliter seriato-punctatis ; pedibus gra- 

 cilibus. 

 Long. 21 mm. ; lat. mas. 8 mm. 



Upper Congo : Kasongo to Stanley Falls. 



A single specimen was fonnd by Mr. A. F. R. Wollaston. 



This, the first discovered African species of the genus, is 

 unlike any other. It is very smooth above, but not shining, 

 and the pale markings are of a bright yellow colour, quite 

 different from the orange and red of the Oriental species. 

 It is long and narrow, with slender legs, not very^ strongly 

 dilated tarsi, and delicate but not long antennae, with the 

 club very small. The pale shoulder-patch is almost square 

 in shape, with a round black spot in the centre ; the post- 

 median lunule is remote from it and curves forward parallel 

 to, but at a distance from, the suture ; and the apical mark 

 is V-shaped, with its outer limb produced forward until it 

 almost touches the postmedian one. 



Micrencaustes spinipes, sp. n. 



Flava, capite, pronoti medio, scutello, elytrorum marginibus, 

 abdoraine (medio excepto), pedibus antennisque rufis, pronoti 

 maculis 5, elytrorum plagis duabus communibus, i)unctis 3 

 basalibus, una laterali ante medium posita unaque aiite-apicali 

 majori nigris ; modice elougata, parum nitida, capite parce 

 punctato, clypeo autem crebre et fortiter, pronoto minute et 

 parce, basin versus fortius punctato ; elytris leviter striato- 

 punctatis; pedibus validis, tibiis omnibus apice extus acute 

 spinosis; antennavum clava parva. 



Long. 19 mm. ; lat. mai. 7'5 mm. 



Belgian Congo : Bakuba Country. 



The single specimen in the British Museum was found by 

 Mr. T. A. Joyce. 



This also is like no other species yet knoAvn. The ground- 

 colour is rust-red, with the sides of the pronotum and the 

 elytra bright yellow edged with red, and the sternum, the 

 middle of the abdomen, and rather complicated mark.ngs 

 on the upper surface black. The black markings consist of 

 an oblique inner dumb-bell shaped bar and outer spot on each 

 side of the pronotum, and, upon the elytra, three small basal 

 spots on each (the two outer ones elongate), a common trans- 

 verse patch just behind the scutellumaud another larger and 

 broader one behind the former, a small lateral spot between 

 the two large patches, and a larger spot near the apex of each 

 elytron. 



The insect is moderately elongate, smooth and shining, 



